Ocotea

Ocotea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lauraceae. Many are evergreen trees with lauroid leaves.

Species

GENUS

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassMagnoliopsida
OrderLaurales
FamilyLauraceae

Native toArgentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Central American Pacific Is.

Observations recorded151,783

Ocotea es un género de fanerógamas de la familia Lauraceae, incluyendo más de 200 especies de árboles y arbustos siempreverdes, distribuidos mayormente en regiones tropical y subtropical de Centro y Sudamérica, las Indias Occidentales, con algunas especies en África: Madagascar, y una, Ocotea foetens (til o tilo), nativa de las islas de Macaronesia. Índice 1 Especies seleccionadas 1.1 Cultivo y usos 2 Referencias 3 Enlaces externos Especies seleccionadas Ocotea abbreviata Schwacke & Mez Ocotea aciphylla Mez Ocotea acutifolia (Nees) Mez - laurel Ocotea adela van der Werff Ocotea albida Mez & Rusby ex Rusby Ocotea albopunctulata Mez Ocotea amazonum Mart. ex Nees Ocotea amplifolia (Mez & Donn.Sm.) van der Werff Ocotea angustifolia Schrad. Ocotea bajapazensis Ocotea barbatula Ocotea caparrapi Ocotea contrerasii Ocotea cuneata (Griseb.) M. Gómez - canelillo de Cuba[3] Ocotea cymbarum Kunth - sasafrás del Brasil, sasafrás del Orinoco.[3] Ocotea euvenosa Ocotea floribunda (Sw.) Mez, 1889 Ocotea foetens (Aiton) Baill. Ocotea heterochroma Mez & Sodiro Ocotea leucoxylon (Sw.) Laness., denominada en Cuba aguacatillo[4] Ocotea longifolia Kunth - laurel de Colombia[3] Ocotea

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Research

197 papers

Essential oils from Ocotea species: Chemical variety, biological activities and geographic availability.Fitoterapia · 2022
Ocotea complex: A metabolomic analysis of a Lauraceae genus.Phytochemistry · 2020
Chemical Diversity and Biological Activities of Essential Oils from Licaria, Nectrandra and Ocotea Species (Lauraceae) with Occurrence in Brazilian Biomes.Biomolecules · 2020
Ocotea nutans (Nees) Mez: structural elucidation of C-hetorosides flavonoids and evaluation of their antioxidant and antibacterial properties from ethyl acetate extract.Natural product research · 2022
The Metabolome of the Ocotea spp.: From Biosynthetic Aspects to Bioactive Chemical Scaffolds by Integrating the Genus Chemical Database (OcoteaDB).Journal of natural products · 2026

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Image: Ocotea foetens.JPG

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Commons category: Ocotea
taxon name: Ocotea
GRIN URL: npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=8359
taxon common name: sweetwood

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Ocotea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lauraceae. Many are evergreen trees with lauroid leaves.

There are over 520 species currently accepted within the genus, distributed mostly in tropical and subtropical areas of the Americas (around 300 species) including the Caribbean and West Indies, but also with some species in Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands. One species (O. foetens) is native to the Macaronesia (in Canary Islands and Madeira). The genus is suspected to be paraphyletic.